- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:10:15 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: > [Tab Atkins:] >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote: >> > As an author, I would like the possibility to declare how many digits >> > a list can have. An example of a <OL> with four digits. >> > >> > >> > 0001 <li> ... </li> >> > 0002 <li> ... </li> >> > >> > up to >> > >> > 9999 <li> ... </li> >> >> This is doable with an alphabetic style if you're willing to play around >> with the list value. If you take the 'decimal' style and switch it to >> alphabetic, you get "0001" at value 1111, and the next 10k values all have >> 4 digits in the appropriate order. > > Is this obvious ? Should it be only possible as an alphabetic style hack ? No, it's not particularly obvious unless you've already thought about it. An example would be good. If it seems worthwhile, I can add another type to cover this explicitly. I guess it would be identical to numeric, except that it would take a 'width' integer as well, and pad the number with the 0 digit. > In fairness, many of the instances I have seen do involve government > documents which have other stuff prefixing the number e.g. <identifier>-000X > (e.g. the ISN numbers in the WikiLeaks Gitmo files) but it otherwise seems > a reasonable scenario for number lists. Some examples in the wild wouldn't > hurt though. Indeed, examples in the wild would be great. ~TJ
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